I cannot think that we are useless or God would not have created us.

We meet this evening, not in sorrow, but in gladness of heart.

I always [or "often"] walk slowly, but I never walk backwards.

Education does not mean teaching people what they do not know. It means teaching them to behave as they do not behave.

The blessing always comes back to the door of the author.

I did say, at Chicago, in my speech there, that I do wish to see the spread of slavery arrested and to see it placed where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in course of ultimate extinction.

Military glory-that attractive rainbow, that rises in showers of blood-that serpent's eye, that charms to destroy.